Family Culture And Culture, Tradition And Cultural Legacy

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Tradition and Cultural Legacies Every family has a special ways of bonding, celebrating holidays, and memorable moments in life. Most of these ways are family traditions that re passed down from generation to generation. Many of this traditions are a part of family culture or are a way to share family history. Culture and tradition go hand and hand, the clothes, food, storytelling and the way thing are done at family gathers; are a part of both cultural legacies and tradition. As a result of family culture and tradition being so influential in our lives; are we capable of becoming who we really are as a person? Will it impact our ability to find our own identity as we become adults? My family has always been big on family traditions ever since I can remember. However, growing up I never really understood the value of tradition, or the role they played on connecting the family. I really began to understand that It also talks about legacy that she will leave behind in the form of memories and the impact she has on people in general. However, I feel she is talking to someone the she believes does not see the value of her material things in the aspect of the cultural legacy that they may hold. Instead they are only viewing it through the eyes of the world for the monetary value it may possess. Rich says, “If you have taken this rubble for my past raking through it for fragments you could sell” (Rich 445) mean that everyone that inherits her belongings will not know the value of the items. Rich also added, “If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction” (Rich 445), I feel she is letting the people who feel she is in valuables cannot stop her story by selling her items. This is only because she has made an impression on the hearts and minds of other people who know the value of her cultural legacy. Cultural legacy goes beyond material

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